On the Edge of the World

Marlène Amar

2005

Every day at siesta time, when under the scorching heat of the sun the little town of Kenadza was breathing its last, Madame Karsenty would settle down on the sofa in the living room where her son, Theophile, was dozing and rub his head. Having done the noontime dishes, Fortune, her daughter, would sit down at their feet facing them with a book…

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Marlène Amar

b. 1949

Algerian-born Marlène Amar, now living in France, is a journalist and film critic for the weekly French newsmagazine Le Nouvel Observateur. A former teacher and the recipient of a doctorate in French literature from the Université de Nanterre, Amar is also a novelist.

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